Recreation and activities in Normandy at the chateau estate of Canisy
Thanks to its magnificent, well-kept park, and to its vast farm and forest land Canisy, our luxury hotel in Normandy, offers many recreational possibilities and leisure activities on site: you can wander through the large estate on foot, on VTT, or on horseback. You can play tennis or you can fish on the pond. You can play petanque or croquet. We can also arrange for archery or ball trap shooting. In the evening you may enjoy our modern night club. Or we will arrange concerts before diner in the Music Room, by accomplished musicians, which have been a Canisy tradition with friends of many years.
Leisure activities in Normandy, close to the chateau.
By car you can reach near-by golf courses, notably Agon-Coutainville or Omaha Beach. And you can discover the cultural and touristic world-renowned riches of the region such as Mont Saint Michel or the Bayeux Tapestry ...
During a weekend in our castle in Normandy, you can also visit the significant sites and beaches of the D-day invasion of 1944: Saint Mere l'Eglise, Utah Beach, Pointe du Hoc, Omaha Beach, Arromanches...
Finally, we can suggest other activities in Normandy such as visits to places that are less well known, but well worth discovering - notably some abbeys and cathedrals - but also little fishing ports, gastronomic restaurants of the region, cider-houses, etc...
The D-Day Invasion
The D-Day Museums
Caen peace memorial : www.memorial-caen.fr
Airborne museum, Saint-Mère l'Eglise : www.airborne-museum.org
Artificial harbour of Arromanches
- D-Day musuemt
- Arromanches 360
The museums of Bayeux
- Battle of Normandy memorial museum
- General de Gaulle memorial
Museums
Caen
Museum of Fine Arts
Art of the 20th century (modern and contemporary), decorative arts, fine arts
Le Château, 14000 Caen, France
Bayeux
The "Bayeux" Tapestry of Queen Mathilde
Made in the 11th century, as a long pictorial panorama in astonishing still vivid colors, illustrating the cross-channel invasion from the Cotentin peninsula and conquest of the England by William the Conqueror (Battle of Hasting in 1066), participated in the Hugues de Carbonnel, owner of the Castle of Canisy and ancestor of this current owner.
Centre Guillaume le Conquérant, #13bis rue de Nesmond, 14402, Bayeux
Saint Lo
Museum of Fina Arts
Art of the 20th (modern and contemporary), fine arts, history
Centre culturel Jean Lurçat, Place du Champ de Mars, 50 000 Saint-Lô.
Abbeys & Cathedrals
Abbey of Hambye
Abbey of the XII century
Abbey of Lessay
Benedictine Abbey
Abbey of the Lucerne
Abbey of Cerisy-la-Forêt
Benedictine Abbey
Abbey of the Mont Saint Michel
World heritage of UNESCO
Cathedral Notre-Dame
Bayeux
Gothic Cathedral
Coutances
The Castes
Castle of Balleroy
Balleroy chateau and the adjoining village, one of the first urban development plans in France.
Castle of Fontaine-Henry
The chateau Fontaine-Henry, a jewel of the Renaissance in Normandy, eight centuries of family heritage.
Hôtel de Beaumont
This prestigious private home, designated a historic monument, shows the daily life of the Normandy nobility in the 13th and 19th centuries. In Vallonge, the Versaille of Normandy.
Castle of Tocqueville
The Tocqueville chateau where the writer Alexis de Tocqueville lived and which still belongs to descendants of the Tocqueville family. It is not normally open for visits, however because of the lasting ties between our two families, it is possible to arrange a private visits for devotes of the work of Alexis de Tocqueville.
Parks and Gardens
Floral park of the Chateau Martinvast
English gardens
Park of the chateau of Nacqueville
English gardens
Garden of the chateau of Brécy
French garden
